I'm really hoping it's a generic garage band theme (a la Al's Garage Band) with generic music, but includes an option to Bluetooth in the music of the player's choosing through their phone (hence "dialed in").

This way everyone can suddenly turn their Bluetooth on load a band's playlist, and suddenly have their Queen/Maiden/Sabbath/Zeppelin/Nirvana/Tool/Megadeth/Rush/Van Halen/Slayer pin all in one.

"Dialed In" may have more than one meaning. Everyone just assumes it's going to be a cell phone theme pin. Really? What, you think Pat Lawlor is going to design a game where you have to fight between the Verizon/Sprint nerd and the AT&T chick or something? Or maybe you have to hit shots to spell out a late night text to your nagging girlfriend???

I wouldn't be surprised if "Dialed In" means that it interacts with a phone in a small way and perhaps also is a small hat tip to the phrase we always use it as which is a machine that has a ton of good shots that are "dialed in".

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Pics on their site are much better than that low-res, shaky cam stream.

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Meanwhile, over the last 30 minutes, people remembered Pat's opening joke about not making a wrestling theme, and promptly used their money saved for this to buy the rest of Stern's WWELE stock.

I don't know about everyone else here. I enjoy video games on the rare occasion, but I play pinball because I like to... well JJP said it pretty well...

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I hope this isn't the future for all JJP games. Controller in hand + HDTV in front of me. In a way this feels less like a pin, and more of an Xbox game with a playfield in the way.

Unfortunately I think you're 100% correct and it sucks. This feels like when the local news uses hashtags.

In your question lies the answer. "... all within Quantum City". Welp, there's your name. Calling it Dialed is just a poor attempt in social media era buzz words. It suggests little to nothing about what the game is about (a comic book?), where it happens, what's going on, or anything useful except that "hey phones, you like phones, right?". Quantum City at least sounds like a title inviting you into a futuristic world.

The current title is pandering to the ENTIRELY wrong audience while alienating the two markets they can't afford to lose - home use and operators.

The one saving grace here is that it still is unlicensed theme, so there's no approvals from some pinball-clueless marketing department (though clueless is the term of the day). JJP could read all of this and perhaps re-skin it by end of year with new title, art, and perhaps turn the phone into something that doesn't look like a cry to be hip.

At least I still have 4 WOZ machines all on route to play locally